Berry’s friend Ira Harris taught him new guitar techniques that became the basis for the Chuck Berry sound. On a trip to Chicago, he hooked up with his idol Muddy Waters who sent him over to Chess Records to make a record. Berry had no recordings of his own and had to return to St. Louis to put some music together on tape. One of those songs was “Maybelline” which would become his first big hit. The
Ngo Dinh Diem Ngo Dinh Diem, the first President of South Vietnam, and last successful president. Ngo Dinh Diem was born in 1901. He was born into a catholic family (Roberts 26). Ngo Dinh Diem was born and raised in the village named Pho Cam (Roberts 26). Ngo Dinh Diem studied at the School of Law and Administration in Hanoi (Roberts 26).Moved to the U.S. because of possible danger of assassination, later to work as a bus boy for a while (“Ngo” 1).
Chicano studies 100 1:00 March 3, 2012 Vicente "Chente" Fernandez was born on February 17, 1940 in the village of Huentitan El Alto, Jalisco, Mexico. Vincente Fernandez was the son of a rancher, Ramon Fernandez and homemaker, Paula Gomez Fernandez. At the age of six, Chente dreamed of pursuing a career in singing. At age 8, he got a guitar and quickly learned to play and began to study folk music. Vicente grew up in poverty, and when his dad lost the ranch he moved to Tijuana where he worked as a janitor, dishwasher and a waiter.
Antoni Gaudi is one of the most original and distinctive architects the world has seen. His buildings have given Barcelona a unique aspect, and transformed the landscape, his idea’s and design explorations changed the rules of architecture, but what influenced Gaudi’s famous style? Gaudi was born in 1852 in the city of Reus in Tarragona. Antonia Cornet and Francisco Gaudi had five children, the last of which was Antonio. Gaudi’s family were artisans, and he was the first in four generations to leave the family tradition of metalworking.
He celebrates the artificial and brings out a world of fantasy through his photos. Lachapelle was born in Connecticut in 1969. He trained as a fine artist at North Carolina School of the Arts before moving to New York. Upon his arrival Lachapelle enrolled in both the Arts Student League and the School of Visual Arts. It was none other than Andy Warhol who offered him his first professional job shooting for Interview magazine.
He became a mentor to Baldwin, and Beauford’s influence brought him to his first realization that a black person could be an artist. While working odd jobs, he wrote short stories, essays, and book reviews. He also was a preacher like his stepfather but was better gifted. During his teenage years in Harlem and Greenwich Village, Baldwin started to realize that he was gay. Baldwin was taunted by American prejudice against blacks and gays, so Baldwin left the United States at the4 age of twenty-four and settled in Paris, France.
Antoine-Joseph, know as Adolphe, Sax was born in Belgium on November 6th, 1814. Sax worked with his father, Charles-Joseph Sax, who was also an instrument maker. Charles was an important figure to Adolphe has he made several changes to the design of the saxophone when Adolphe began making them. In 1841, after leaving the Royal School of Singing, where he studied flute and clarinet, Sax began to experiment with new instrument designs. Sax left Belgium and moved permanently to Paris.
He later returned to his alma mater, where he briefly taught; but he discovered he could make more money, and further progress his newly forming style, while painting portraits on the street. It was during his time on the streets that he made connections with American embassy workers, and also his first show in Coburg, Germany where nearly all of his displayed paintings sold; he later packed up his belongings and left to Los Angeles where 20 of his works were being exhibited; beginning his "American Odyssey." (http://vladimirkush.com) In Los Angeles, Kush worked in a quaint, rented home garage, but was unable to show off his work due to lack of funds. But, after returning to painting portraits on the street ( this time on the Santa Monica pier,) Kush raised enough money to purchase a ticket to Maui, Hawaii, or as he titles it, the "Promised Land," (http://vladimirkush.com) and his home to this day. Kush worked as a mural painter of the Whaler's Village Musuem in Maui, but in 1993 a dealer from France noticed the originality and creativeness of his work and organized an exhibition in Hong Kong; the place where Kush's work earned him several later
Forced to leave Johns Hopkins he looked for residence in Paris. He was to reside in France till his death in 1934. His first years (1908–1912) in France were interrupted by long stays in Mexico where he advised on university matters and lectured at the School of Higher Studies at the National University in Mexico City. James Mark Baldwin was prominent among early experimental psychologists but it was his contributions to developmental psychology that were the most important. His step-wise theory of cognitive development was a major influence on the later, and much more widely known, developmental theory of Jean Piaget.
Everyday objects were often included in Rauschenberg’s art, along with a focus of current events. This interest in everyday object, people and current events is apparent in many pieces, including Retroactive 1. After serving in the military, Rauschenberg used the G.I bill to study in Paris. He quickly realized that he was not very interested in European art and moved to North Carolina to study at Black Mountain College. At Black Mountain College Rauschenberg studies under many artists who helped to make him into the artist he became.